“Mortals have always exaggerated the difference between hate and love. Both come from the heart. You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.”

— Christopher Pike

Source: Black Blood

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American author Kevin Christopher McFadden 1954

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

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“Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart… If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“Not proud you have, but thankful that you have. Proud can I never be of what I hate, but thankful even for hate that is meant love.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

“The principal difference between love and hate is that love is an irradiation, and hate is a concentration.”

Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist

"Love and Its Loveless Counterfeits"
Strictly Personal (1953)
Context: The principal difference between love and hate is that love is an irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred. All the fearful counterfeits of love — possessiveness, lust, vanity, jealousy — are closer to hate: they concentrate on the object, guard it, suck it dry.

“you have to love something before you can hate it.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

“They either love, love, love you, or hate, hate, hate you.”

Imelda Marcos (1929) Former First Lady of the Philippines

Quoted in " The day I met Imelda Marcos http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1000140.stm at BBC News (31 October 2000).
Context: When you reach a certain level of leadership, people cannot be neutral with you. They either love, love, love you, or hate, hate, hate you.

“Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat… between the law of love and the law of hate.”

José Martí (1853–1895) Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader

Letter (1881), as quoted in The Conscience of Worms and the Cowardice of Lions : Cuban Politics and Culture in an American Context (1993) by Irving Louis Horowit, p. 11

“I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.”

Michael Morpurgo book War Horse

Source: War Horse

“My dear Aysel. First I want you to strongly believe and to be sure that I love you with all my heart. You should not doubt this. I love you and I will always love you into eternity; My life, My love, My dear.”

Ziad Jarrah (1975–2001) September 11th hijacker

Letter to Aysel Şengün (2001)

“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

“Mortals have always exaggerated the difference between hate and love. Both come from the heart. You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.”

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